Stage 4 - Release

Find out how to request access to production and go live.

The e-RS Partners team will help manage set up in the production (PROD) environment for your go-live. They will send you a PROD form which you will need to complete.

The main steps in live deployment are:

You will need to register your application in the production environment. This is a separate environment to where your previous application was registered.

Your application created in the previous step will be bound to an ASID (Accredited System Identifiers) - this is a one-to-one mapping.

You will need multiple ASIDs if you're working with many end user organisations (EUO) and using both access modes.

If your integrated software uses:

• both access modes, you will need an ASID for each access mode
• the application-restricted access mode for both referrer and provider capability, you will need an ASID for each capability

For example, your integrated software includes: user-restricted, application-restricted (referrer) and application-restricted (provider) access modes.

Your setup would require 3 ASIDs per EUO:

1. [Organisation Name] - [Product Name] – Prod - User-Restricted (ASID 1)

2. [Organisation Name] - [Product Name] – Prod - Application-Restricted - Referrer (ASID 2)

3. [Organisation Name] - [Product Name] – Prod - Application-Restricted - Provider (ASID 3)

4.17 Sharing with other NHS services

The e-RS ASID model also restricts which NHS services the ASID can be shared with.

For those NHS services on the APIM platform, the ASID cannot be shared. For example: PDS (Personal Demographics Service), EPS (Electronic Prescription Service) or SCR (Summary Care Record). You will require a separate ASID for these collective services.

Other NHS services can be shared. Such as: NEMS (National Events Management Service), CP-IS (Child Protection - Information Sharing service) or GP Connect.

To access the production environment, you will need to generate a key pair for each application and access mode:

• user-restricted (separate authentication and authorisation)
• application-restricted (signed JWT authentication)

The previous step will create a new AppID for your application. Please complete the PROD form, including the new IDs, and return it to [email protected].

There are some further technical requirements for us to complete on receipt of this form. 

Once all the above activities are complete, the e-RS Partners team will email you to confirm your status. 

This completes the live deployment process and you are now live!

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